Festivalgoers with their drinks during BottleRock on Saturday, May 27, 2017, in Napa, Calif.

Photo: Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle

It’s hard to eat poorly at BottleRock Napa Valley. The three-day music festival reflects the region’s vibrant culinary culture in its offerings from local restaurants — everything from poke bowls to duck fat french fries to Wagyu brisket sandwiches.

You can drink well at BottleRock, too. The outdoor event will have 23 Napa Valley wineries, mostly large-scale producers who can afford the hefty sponsorship fees. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible to drink good wine while watching your favorite band — you can definitely do it, and The Chronicle is here to help. We’ll make sure you don’t throw away $23 on a plastic Govino cup full of mediocre Cabernet. For wine, food and other comestibles, here are our top picks for BottleRock 2018:

Food

Since opening in 2016, Southside Cafe — inconspicuously situated in a strip mall parking lot — has been Napa’s best option for fresh, flavorful, casual breakfasts and lunches. At the festival you can taste one of Southside’s signature dishes, the rock shrimp tostada, in addition to smoked hot wings with a pepper-peach glaze. www.southsidenapa.com

The Morimoto menchi katsu burger has become a BottleRock standby. When else can you taste a panko-breaded, deep-fried hamburger from an Iron Chef? Another excellent fried option from this food stand: Morimoto’s angry fried chicken with togarashi curly fries. www.morimotonapa.com

There will be plenty of creative tacos available at BottleRock — Farm’s duck confit tacos; CookTavern’s fish tacos — but our money’s on the soft shell crab tacos from Torc, a sleek downtown Napa restaurant. They’ll also be serving up sweet potato pakora and pork belly bao at the fest. www.torcnapa.com

Kendra Kolling, a.k.a. the Farmer’s Wife, makes some of our favorite sandwiches in the whole Bay Area. Her “The Works” sandwich, an elaborate grilled cheese with chorizo, was one of our gastronomic highlights from Outside Lands last year. For BottleRock, Kolling has replaced it with a lamb merguez number — “my all-time favorite sausage and cheese sandwich,” she says — that comes with homemade chimichurri, and greens and stone fruit on the side. (Inside tip: Although the Works won’t be listed on the menu, if you ask, Kolling will happily make it.) www.thefarmerswifesonoma.com

Wine

St. Supery, the Rutherford winery now owned by French fashion company Chanel, has a lineup of refreshing wines (in addition, of course, to the obligatory Cabernet): a Merlot-based rosé, a Sauvignon Blanc, an unoaked Chardonnay and — the favorite here — Virtu, a blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.www.stsupery.com

Two sparkling wine-focused wineries will be pouring at BottleRock this year: Schramsberg and Domaine Chandon. Schramsberg’s blanc de blancs, a vintage wine made from Chardonnay, is perennially one of Napa’s best sparklings, crisp and fruity. The Chandon wines often veer a little sweeter and fruitier. www.schramsberg.com, www.chandon.com

It’s fitting that Cliff Lede Vineyards should be pouring at BottleRock, since the Stag’s Leap District winery is all about music, naming each of its vineyard blocks after a rock song. This year, they’ll be pouring their claret, a rich Bordeaux blend, as well as a lush, complex Pinot Gris from Fel, their sister winery located in the cooler-climate Anderson Valley of Mendocino County. www.cliffledevineyards.com

A discussion of BottleRock wines is incomplete without acknowledging JaM Cellars, the new-ish brand from John and Michele Truchard that sponsors a stage at the festival and makes no secret of its marketing objectives: The Chardonnay is called Butter, the sparkling called Toast, the Cabernet called Jam and, now, the rosé called Candy. www.jamcellars.com

Beer

The latest addition to downtown Napa is Stone Brewing. San Diego’s pioneering craft beer company just opened a taproom (930 Third St.) overlooking the Napa River this month. Grab a pint of the dry-hopped IPA at the festival, or head across the river after the headliner for a nightcap. www.stonebrewing.com

Walnut Creek’s Calicraft Brewing Co. is continually blurring the line between beer and wine. Their sparkling Buzzerkeley ale, brewed with Champagne yeast, is a brewery standard. But Calicraft’s new Trees line of beers gets even more experimental: Look for Guava Trees, made with Pinot Grigio, and Raspberry Trees, brewed with Zinfandel. www.calicraft.com

Tannery Bend Beerworks opened last year in downtown Napa (101 S. Coombs St., Suite X), winning locals with its citrusy Coombs Saison and balanced IPAs. The brewery will be pouring the saison as well as its Northeastern-style Yajome IPA during the festival. www.tannerybendbeerworks.com

Spirits

Napa Valley has its own bourbon — kind of. John Schwartz, who owns the Napa Valley wine brands Amuse Bouche and Coup de Foudre (and is also the vintner behind Ayesha Curry’s new wine) is now a partner in a Kentucky distillery, producing a 12-year bourbon called Lone Whisker. You can find the whiskey, as well as Schwartz’s wines, at this year’s festival. www.lonewhisker.com

Wine critic Esther Mobley joined The Chronicle in 2015 to cover California wine, beer and spirits. Previously she was an assistant editor at Wine Spectator magazine in New York, and has worked harvests at wineries in Napa Valley and Argentina. She studied English literature at Smith College.